To be honest, I don’t have an awe-inspiring story of why I became interested in becoming an engineer. I never did much as a kid, not specifically anyways. My only aspiration was accomplishing the impossible. I wanted to do something that would catch the eye of the entire world. I wanted to put my name out there. In a sense, I wanted to be famous, but not like the average celebrity. I’m no superhero, but I always desired the recognition or acknowledgement for something that I had done or created, something that was thought to be impossible, or at least improbable.
Something that my parents have taught me that has kept me going this far is that in order to achieve something so great, you have to be passionate about it. Now, one of my few interests has always been the Universe. I would sit outside and look up, day and night, and just stare, wondering about what lay past the clouds. My biggest question was “How the hell do I get up there?” I wanted to know everything there was to know about the Universe, and I wanted to see it with my own eyes. Here began my obsession with flying.
Because of my height, or should I say lack of height, flying has been a bit restricted for me. However, I never let that stop my drive to create something that would venture to the furthest reaches of space. Although I wished to be the astronaut that got the opportunity to go into Space, I decided late in my high school career to become the person that would make it possible for their astronomic travel. Through research, I realized that the only way that I would have the opportunity to work with NASA or other manufacturers of air and space vehicles would be by studying Aerospace Engineering. My passion is flying and space travel, and even though I can’t physically go myself, I want to be fabricate a vehicle that would allow human beings to travel farther than ever before and expand our reach into the Universe.
